Divyanshu

I think soldering requires constant practise. Riding a bike is something which you don't really have to 'focus' on balancing the bike. But not in the case of soldering. You have to make the solders flawless.

I find it like riding a bicycle. All it takes is some practice, and if you've been out of practice for a while, it's a skill that comes back pretty quickly. (and it's not that difficult in the first place, once you get the hang of it.) (and I've probably had gaps in my soldering whose length has exceeded many readers total soldering experience. Being mostly a SW sort of guy...)

sptrks

Well general purpose through-hole soldering is fairly easy to pick up. Now SMD soldering is something that is a wee bit more challenging. Luckily a large part of my job requires soldering components on motherboards so I get paid to work on my skills

focalist

I take 'roids to enhance my soldering performance. Now every idiot that wants to look trendy wears a stupid rubber wristband that says "Rosin Strong".

I for one picked up soldering and Arduino so as to look useful to our (coming, and not a moment too soon) Robot Overlords. Riding a bike only impresses Al Gore. The robots will give me wealth and dominion over thousands.

However, this new ROHS Lead-free solder might be better than the 60/40 we used back in the day- it must have been imported from China. No matter how much of the old stuff you ate, you were still hungry again in an hour. (twitch) (twitch)